MissionLab v7.0

Latest Version:

&nbsp&nbsp 7.0.00

Release Date:

&nbsp&nbsp 07/12/2006

Announcement

The Mobile Robot Laboratory at Georgia Tech is pleased to announce the release
of MissionLab v7.0 multiagent robotics mission specification and
control software. MissionLab takes high-level military-style plans
and executes them with teams of real or simulated robotic vehicles.
MissionLab supports execution of multiple robots both in simulation
and actual robotics platforms, including device drivers for controlling iRobot's
ATRV-Jr and Urban Robot, ActivMedia's AmigoBot and Pioneer AT, and Nomadics Technologies' Nomad
150 & 200. Each vehicle executes its portion of the mission using reactive control techniques developed here at Georgia Tech.

MissionLab System Key Components

mlab -- console-like program from which a user monitors the progress of experimental runs of the robot executables

CfgEdit -- graphical tool for building robot behaviors - the designer can build complex control structures with the point and click of a mouse

cdl -- compiler that translates the configuration description language of the robot missions

MissionLab via VMWare Virtualization: distribution (1.8GB) -
We now have a VMWare virtualized image of Fedora 4 that contains a new MissionLab version (created for the MAST project), that comes with everything that is necessary preinstalled. This is the easiest option that does not require native installation of a linux distribution compatible with MissionLab. See instructions on how to use it. (Credit and thanks to the MAST team at U.C. Berkeley for supplying this!)

*NEW*
MissionLab distribution via
MissionLab-Carmen Project - a new distribution for Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSuse,
Debian, CentOS - Credit and thanks to the Robotics and Society Group from the
University of Salamanca, this version provides a
native installation of current linux distributions compatible with
MissionLab. (Different robotic hardware is supported in some cases from other
MissionLab versions - see the website)

MissionLab v7.0 distribution (13.6 MB - You need at least 400 MB of a disk space to install and work with MissionLab.)

MissionLab compiles and runs on Linux. In particular, we have successfully compiled and tested with the following systems. For more information regarding the requirements, please see notes in README.COMPILE.

MissionLab is being developed at the Mobile Robot Laboratory at Georgia Tech under the direction of Professor Ronald Arkin. MissionLab distribution includes unsupported source code. Please feel free to download it and send any feedback to mlab‍@‍cc.‍gatech.‍edu.

Mobile Robot Laboratory, College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology